Veterans receiving disability benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) will see an increase in their payments starting February 2026. The adjustment comes as part of the VA’s annual ...

A week after the Department of Veterans Affairs published an interim final rule that would have lowered disability ...

The Trump administration and Republicans in Congress are already trying to restrict veteran care through bills that seek to ...

Veterans groups said the rule is an “abrupt shift” and was “issued in a closed and unnecessarily expedited process.” ...

The department has reported that the backlog of benefit and compensation claims is 63 percent smaller than a year ago.

The new rule states that a disability level must be based on how well a veteran functions while on medication and not on the ...

Veterans who rely on disability compensation can expect a meaningful, if modest, lift in their monthly payments in 2026, as benefits are set to rise by 2.8 percent. That adjustment will ripple through ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs is halting enforcement of a new rule for determining disability payments after veterans across the US expressed outrage for what they said would likely reduce ...

Under a new rule, the Department of Veterans Affairs will lower veterans’ disability pay if medication improves their ...

The VA paused a rule that bases compensation on how a veteran does on medication and not on the injury or illness, but it ...

Under a previous court precedent, VA examiners were required to consider what a veteran’s disability would look like without medication. Under the new rule, the rating is based on how the veteran ...

A federal lawsuit is challenging a Department of Veterans Affairs rule that requires disability ratings to reflect how well veterans function on medication rather than the severity of their underlying ...